House Band is a hazy IPA from the folks at Toronto’s Rainhard Brewing. Pretty low-octane for an IPA, it checks in at just 5.8%. The beer, brewed with Citra, El Dorado, and Sabro hops, comes in 473mL cans. It’s a handsome dull orange-gold ale and it pours with a perfect cover of off-white head and a tiny bit of sediment.
The beer has sweet mango aromatics with a slight vanilla subtext. The flavour, too, has a lot of juicy mango. The texture is smooth and lush. However, to my palate, there is a slightly discordant note in the finish—something that doesn’t jive with the tropical sweetness.
This beer was pretty good, but I’d have liked the back end to be smoothed out and the alcohol content to be a bit higher.
Rating: 7.0 out of 10.
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